The sensations of motherhood
I lead a journaling workshop on Wednesday mornings. One of the prompts this week was to compile 5 lists of 5: 5 things you love to see, 5 things you love to […]
Shut Up: Bringing America's People to Reality
As a teacher and speaker on body image issues, I have the good fortune of going around the country to help people process the experiences that have formulated their body […]
Making Do
So on Saturday afternoon, BF and I loaded baby in his stroller, put puppy on her leash and headed down to the grocery store to do our shopping for the […]
Today's the last day to enter the Milestones Contest
So visit the original blog entry to enter your guesses for when baby will start crawling and sleeping through the night and you could win some African coffee! Even if […]
Going back to middle school
I was invited to speak to a Latina seventh grade group at CC Griffin Middle School in Harrisonburg, North Carolina on Tuesday. I decided that I would tell them a little […]
Read Green
In honor of Earth Day and Inspired Tuesday, I want to recommend two books to you by a colleague and friend, Jodi Helmer. Go green one day at a time. […]
We are all Susan Boyle
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY] If you own a television or computer, you caught wind of the Susan Boyle story last week. A 47 year old Scottish lady gets the chance to sing for […]
Milestones Contest #1
So, it’s time for a contest around these parts. And it’s going to be a sweet baby A related contest. We’re approaching a couple milestones (we think, hope, worry): crawling […]
Organizing a book
I’ve started work on a new book project that I am hopeful will go to contract in the coming months. I love working on books– getting to spend a greater length of time […]
Insights
So, when I was in high school, I went on a leadership retreat and one of the tasks we were given was to go off with one other person and […]
